ALFA (2) H2020 Project: Advanced Low Flying Aircrafts Detection and Tracking (part two)
EUVATION: Spotlight on European Innovation
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5 • 1 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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We speak with Gilles Prémel-Cabic from THALES Nederland about the ALFA project. We had the opportunity to gather facts in Cacela Velha, Portugal as Gilles and his team assembled to test ALFA components together for the first time. In our discussions we learn a bit about how the system is intended to work and how it has been working so far. We also talk about the future of ALFA: what happens after this demonstration?
The ALFA project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 700002.
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| 0:00.0 | powerful collaborations, cutting-edge science, and curious minds coming together for a glimpse of the future. |
| 0:13.0 | Stay tuned as we look at the latest updates on some of the most promising technology projects. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome once again. I'm your host, Peter Ballant, and this time we again take a closer |
| 0:25.6 | look at the Alpha H2020 project. In the first part of this program, we identified Alpha |
| 0:31.0 | as a project which combines many technologies to be able to detect, classify, and even predict |
| 0:37.3 | the landing site of illegal aerial vehicles like drones and low-flying small helicopters. |
| 0:42.9 | As you can imagine, a tool like this could go a long way in securing the European borders against drug smuggling, for example. |
| 0:49.5 | The success of this project is due to the unwavering efforts of nine partners from six countries across Europe. |
| 0:55.7 | Today, we are attending a product demonstration. |
| 0:58.4 | It's a way to bring everyone together to test the various systems as an integrated whole, a proof of concept, if you will. |
| 1:06.6 | Over the next few days, project partners will test their wares from a makeshift control center, |
| 1:11.6 | and this is where we caught up with Jill Premal-Kabik from Talis in the Netherlands. |
| 1:17.1 | Let's go inside the Alpha Control Center and talk to Jill. |
| 1:22.6 | Thank you for taking a few moments of your busy schedule here to talk with us a little bit about the |
| 1:27.8 | Alpha project. Can you tell us what's the kind of the big idea for Alpha here? |
| 1:32.8 | Yeah, Alpha is about protecting European borders and for this project is mainly about |
| 1:39.0 | countering drug trafficking. So the project mainly focused on the detection, tracking and classification of low flying air targets. |
| 1:50.0 | And by these targets which mean small target like drones, but also small helicopters and fixed wing. |
| 1:58.0 | And next to this main activity of detection tracking classification, we also |
| 2:03.2 | try to gain knowledge about the intent of those targets. So where could they drop off |
| 2:10.3 | something? Where could they land? |
| 2:12.4 | So this tells me that currently the radar we use today maybe can't see these things? Is that a problem? Is that the issue? |
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